Miklós Erhardt
Mikós Erhardt is an artist born in Budapest, where he has been living and working since then. A Member of the artist’s group Big Hope, and has recently been working on his PhD at Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts www.bighope.hu
Nikolett Erőss
Nikolett Eross, is the curator of Trafo Gallery and editor of the on-line contemporary art magazine, www.exindex.hu
Maja and Reuben Fowkes
Maja and Reuben Fowkes are curators and art historians who deal with issues of memory, ecology and translocal exchange. Their work on sustainability and contemporary art has included organising an international conference, exhibitions, film screenings, lectures and publications. They are the curators of Revolution is not a Garden Party and the ‘Socialist Memory: Documentary Approaches in Contemporary Art’ film screening. Reuben Fowkes is a Research Fellow in Location, Memory and Visuality at Manchester Metropolitan University. www.translocal.org
Dora Hegyi
Art historian, curator, between 1996 and 2003 curator at the Ludwig Museum Budapest- Museum of Contemporary Art. Since 2005 project leader of tranzit. hu, a contemporary art initiative supported by the Erste Bank Group. Curator of exhibitions, writer of catalogue texts, and reviews.
Beáta Hock
Beata Hock is a free-lance art critic, researcher and curator based in Budapest. Between 2003-06 editor of Praesens Central European Contemporary Art Review. Her publications include a volume (in Hungarian) on Women's Art and Public Art in Hungary as well as various freelance writings on gender, art, and literature.
Benda Hofmeyr
Benda Hofmeyr holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. At present she is affiliated to the Jan van Ecyk Academie, Maastricht, the Netherlands as well as the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Her research interests span a broad variety of fields including contemporary Continental philosophy, political and moral philosophy, art and cultural production.
Tamás Kaszás and Viktor Kotun
Tamás Kaszás graduated in 2003 from the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Art. He primarily creates installations, art works appearing in public space and complex projects. His field of interest lies in research to give creative answers to social and spiritual questions. Lajos Viktor Kotun is a student of the theory of communication at ELTE University Budapest. He deals with the critique of revolutionary political movements and activist groups. He is researching existing and until now merely imagined forms of contemporary propaganda art.
Chus Martinez
Chus Martínez has always been interested in the relationship between theory and practice, and in how, after the linguistic turn, the Anglo-Saxon philosophical tradition focuses on finding a definition for art, whereas the Continental School tries to shed light on the concept of experience through art. Between 2003 and 2005, she was curator at Sala Rekalde, a public art space in Bilbao. She is currently the director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein.
Edit Molnár
A curator at Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle Budapest, Edit Molnár has worked as a curator, critic and lecturer both in Hungary and abroad. Recent projects include co-curating the exhibitions ‘Private Matter?’ (Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle, 2005), ‘Travelling Without Moving’ (Studio Gallery, Trafó Gallery, W139 Amsterdam, 2004) and ‘On Mobility’ (Amsterdam/Berlin/Vilnius, 2005-2006.) and ‘Dreamlands Burn’ (2006-2007), (Műcsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest).
Gerald Raunig
Philosopher, art theoretician, lives in Vienna; works at the eipcp (European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies), Vienna; co-ordinator of the transnational research projects republicart (http://republicart.net, 2002-2005) and transform (http://transform.eipcp.net, 2005-2008); university lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy, University of Klagenfurt.
Simon Sheikh
Simon Sheikh is a curator and critic. He is an Assistant Professor of Art Theory and a Coordinator of the Critical Studies Program, Malmö Art Academy
in Sweden. Recent publications include the anthologies In the Place of the Public Sphere?, b_books, Berlin, 2005 and Capital (It Fails Us Now), b_books, Berlin, 2006. Lives in Berlin and Copenhagen.
János Sugár
János Sugár is a lecturer at the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. His work includes installations, performances, as well as film and video, and he has participated in international exhibitions such as documenta IX, Kassel and Manifesta I, Rotterdam.
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